Writing
- Corn sweat is making the air in the Midwest oppressively muggy (August 3, 2022)
- Winter weather predictions abound, but which should you trust? (October 19, 2022)
Many of my timeliest thoughts these days end up on my Medium page, where I can take them quickly to the world. Some of my most popular and/or favorite articles include:
- 5 Top Takeaways from the IPCC 6th Report
- 10 Books for People Who Like Weather and History
- How Dry Is It?
- How to Beat the Heat: See it Coming (More than a Week Ahead
- Pioneer Girl:The Revised Texts” Review, and a Peek into the “Wilder Weather” Research Project
- 3 Minutes 24 Seconds
- 10 Laura Ingalls Wilder Lessons Helping Me Cope with Coronavirus Quarantine
I’ve also posted blog entries in the Wilder Weather section of our family’s website. While I rarely post there now, there are tidbits there about weather, climate, motherhood, reading, and other facets of life. If you wander into the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association’s LIWLRA.org page, you’ll find a few blog posts from me there, too! These are mostly chapter summaries from the Little House books in community read-alongs.
Meteorologists and weather hobbyists enjoy the magazine Weatherwise. In November 2012, I published The long Winter: Studying the Climatology of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Hard Winter of 1880-1881. (This is behind a paywall.)
I don’t always write about weather, climate, and/or Laura Ingalls Wilder! The Omaha-based literary journal Fine Lines published my piece "The Eleventh Mile" (pg 36 of this issue) in the summer of 2014.